Why You Should Consider Being a Data Engineer Instead of a Data Scientist

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I just want to say that whether you choose data science or data engineering should ultimately depend on your interests and where your passion lies. In this article I’m going to share with you several reasons why you might want to consider pursuing data engineering over data science. 1. Data engineering is fundamentally more important than data science. Simply put there can be no data science without data engineering. Data engineering is the foundation for a successful data-driven company. Like I previously said companies are realizing the need for data engineers. I took the liberty of webscraping all Data Scientist and all Data Engineer job postings from Indeed Monster and SimplyHired and I found that the number of job listings is about the same for both! Overall there were 16577 data scientist job listings and 16262 data engineer job listings. 3. Data engineering skills are extremely useful as a data scientist. In more established companies the work is typically segregated so that data scientists can focus on data science work and data engineers can focus on data engineering work. I would say that the majority of companies actually require their data scientists to know some amount of data engineering skills. A lot of data scientists end up requiring data engineering skills. It’s also incredibly beneficial to know data engineering skills as a data scientist and I’ll give an example: If you’re a business analyst that doesn’t know SQL you’ll have to ask a data analyst to query information every time you want to gather insights which creates a bottleneck in your workflow. 4. Data science is easier to learn than data engineering. In my opinion it’s much easier to learn data science as a data engineer than learn data engineering skills as a data scientist. And so if you’re starting out your career I personally think it’s more worthwhile investing your time learning data engineering than data science because you have more time to invest. While this is an opinionated

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